Elk Creek, Meade Co., South Dakota, USA - A super esthetic baryte specimen ! A small crystalline calcite matrix hosts 3 baryte crystals with a very nice honey color ! The color are well terminated and are up to 2.8 cm in size ! Very gemmy and well shaped. The clcite matrix is fluorescent under UV. Overall size is 3.3x3.3x2.4 cm. Weight is 15 gr.

Elk Creek, Meade Co., South Dakota, USA - A superb baryte crystal shows on the yellow crystalline calcite coating of this specimen. The baryte is fully terminated and 2.5 cm in size. No damage ! Great esthetic ! Overall size is 5x4x4 cm. Weight is 115 gr.

Elk Creek, Meade Co., South Dakota, USA - A superb baryte crystal cluster of baryte ! There are a couple of fully and perfectly terminated barytes ! The crystals are 3.5 and 2.5 cm in size . Great honey color ! The crystals are gemmy ! Superb specimen. The calcite is fluorescent under UV. Overall size is 4.5x4x2.5 cm. Weight is 48 gr.

Elk Creek, Meade Co., South Dakota, USA - A very esthetic baryte specimen. There are various baryte crystals here. The main one are 3.2 and 2.8 cm in size. Fully terminated the barytes show a beautiful honey color, and are gemmy ! There are a couple of smaller crystals. The barytes stand on a carpet of yellow calcite, fluorescent under UV. Overall size is 6.5x5.5x5 cm. Weight is 235 gr.

Sweetwater Mine, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds Co., Missouri, USA - Glassy yellow mostly gemmy prismatic, double terminated, crystals of calcite measuring to 5.3 cm in length set nicely upon matrix. One cleaved crystal termination at the extreme far right edge of the matrix, this away from the piece, as seen. The prominent crystal is in excellent condition. Measures 9.0 x 5.0 x 3.0 cm.

Loralai, Baluchistan, Pakistan - A very nice fluorite specimen with  a dozen violet fluorite cubes nicely compenetrated one with the others. The fluorites are up to 1.5 cm on the edge and the calcites are up to 1.6 cm. Some of them are biterminated ! overall size is 5x4x2.2 cm. Ex Ikram Mineralogy collection.

Sweetwater Mine, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds Co., Missouri, USA - Glassy prismatic, terminated, crystals of calcite measuring to 2.5 cm in length set nicely upon matrix. There are various calcite crystals forming a cluster. Incomplete the crystals at the lower part of the cluster but very nice the whole complex. A classic from this locality. Measures 7.0 x 4.0 x 4.0 cm.

San Leone Mine, Assemini, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy - A classic from this mine. This specimen is composed by a cluster of lenticolar calcite crystals to 2.4 cm in size, partly covered by limonite ! There are a lot of crystals ! On the top there is a bright partly gemmy calcite of 1.4 cm wide ! nice specimen of 8.5 × 6.2 × 3 cm. Weight is 200 gr.

Iglesias, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy - Sculptural group of copper-rich aragonite with the classic delicate blue color. The aggregate consists of several sprays of elongated calcite, usually diverging as either a papillon (bowtie) of arrange in a semiparallel, artichoke fashion, then locally covered by a number of curvy coralloid aragonite crystallized wires. Quite a sought-after classic from this prolific mining district, now long defunct. Overall size is 7.6 × 5.1 × 4.5 cm. Weight is 70 gr. Ex Lehmann (CH) collection. Original label pasted on the specimen.

Fengjiashan Mine, Daye Co., Hubei Province, China - Attractive pink crystallized in a site covering an area approximately 3.0 x 3.0 cm in size nice on the front side of a 5.0 x 5.0 x 4.0 cm crystallized calcite matrix. In good condition as seen with minimal micro-chipping, this is richly crystallized for the species. Brown micro hubeite present as well. Sits beautifully by itself for display, this upon a sawn base. Overall size is 5.0 x 5.0 x 4.0 cm. Weight is 88 gr